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R.I.P. Garry Shandling
Last edited Fri Mar 25, 2016, 12:17 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/arts/television/no-flipping-remembering-garry-shandling.html?_r=0Garry Shandling, a deadpan comic’s comic who found his great fame playing a fake talk show host with real insecurities, died on Thursday. He was 66.
Mr. Shandling started in show business in the 1970s as a sitcom writer but soon transitioned into stand-up. He was one of the many comics of his generation to get his start at the Comedy Store, the storied Los Angeles club that also served as an incubator for David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld and many others.
From the beginning, his act presented him as a nervous bundle of anxieties trying to get by in a world fraught with social and emotional pitfalls. In the early 1980s he began performing regularly on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” “Late Night With David Letterman” and elsewhere.
Garry Shandling on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" in 1981. NBC
His performances on “The Tonight Show” led Carson to invite him to be a guest host, , creating a precursor of sorts to “The Larry Sanders Show” a decade later. Mr. Shandling was a regular “Tonight Show” guest host until the late ’80s, when he began focusing on his own shows...
Mr. Shandling started in show business in the 1970s as a sitcom writer but soon transitioned into stand-up. He was one of the many comics of his generation to get his start at the Comedy Store, the storied Los Angeles club that also served as an incubator for David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld and many others.
From the beginning, his act presented him as a nervous bundle of anxieties trying to get by in a world fraught with social and emotional pitfalls. In the early 1980s he began performing regularly on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” “Late Night With David Letterman” and elsewhere.
Garry Shandling on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" in 1981. NBC
His performances on “The Tonight Show” led Carson to invite him to be a guest host, , creating a precursor of sorts to “The Larry Sanders Show” a decade later. Mr. Shandling was a regular “Tonight Show” guest host until the late ’80s, when he began focusing on his own shows...
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